St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-08-31
THE CHICAGO ANARCHISTS.
They Probably Have Only Week
More to Live.

N1OIC W
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-A week from to-
day the fate of the anarchists now con-
fined in the county Jail will be made
public. The supreme court meets at
Ottawa Tuesday next, and the decis-
ion on the appeal will be among the first
papers to be handed down. AS the
fated day approaches the condemned
men are evidencing numerous signs OF
anxiety, and although it is given out by
their friends that they are confident of
securing new trial, their actions belle
the statement. Sheriff MatSOn, more
over, is not whit less anxious than the
prisoners themselves. He breads the
task which he will be called upon to per-
form should the law be permitted to take
its course, and he is credited with hav-
ing on several occasions expressed to
intimate friends his fears that should
the anarchists swing his own life would
pay the forfeit. That is to say he is
profoundly impressed with the cOnvic-
ton that policy of revenge will be in
augurated by the sympathiZers with the
doomed men, and that his own name
would be among the first on the roll of
retaliation. Meanwhile it is given out
that arrangements have been made by
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notice of the character of the decision
and should it be unfavorable to the
prisoners, they will at once be searched
and placed in separate cells. The visits
of friends and relatives will also be
stopped, and every possible precaution
will be taken to frustrate any scheme or
plot for their release or the escape of
any one of the number. The McGari-
gle episode has taught the sheriff a
VALUABLE LESSON
and he does not propose to be caught
second time. Just what step will next
be taken, should the decision of the su-
preme court point in the direction of
the gallows, is mOOted question.
Counsel say that they will endeavor to
get the case before the supreme court of
the United States, but some of the old
est and most experienced members of
the Chicago bar do not hesitate to
aver that there is not solitary
feature in the case which would warrant
justice of the supreme court in isSu-
ing writ of SupersedaS. If this view
of the matter proves correct nothing
remains but an appeal to the executive
clemency of Gov. Oglesby. Little is ex-
pected from the court of last resort,
although the defense committee, which
willr eSume its work on Wednesday if
the decision is against the defendants,
say that the appeal will be backed up
by petition miles long, and the sigma
lures upon which will represent every
state and territory in the Union. Presi-
dent Cleveland cannot possibly inter-
fere in the case, although there is talk
to the effect that his interpositiOn will
be asked. Nor is it within the bounds
of reason that the German or English
government could be induced to plead
for the lives of the prisoners, who, not
having shaken off the yoke of allegiance,
are still natives of those countries. In
short, the indications are that the SUI
preme court is the only bar between the
condemned men and the satisfaction of
the law, and that should the decision to
be handed down sustain the verdict of
the court below, there is no power on
earth that can or will prevent the Hay
market tragedy being expiated upon the
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